Its debut on streaming services back in April brought a response which has not only made it one of this year’s most acclaimed records, but one of the most acclaimed of any year, and now Fiona Apple‘s Fetch The Bolt Cutters has been given a physical release.
From today, the chance to delight in a record which is likely to top most end-of-year lists in glorious reality has been afforded, with CD, vinyl and cassette versions all available. “Most established artists are permitted some kind of token radicalism,” our 8.5/10 review opens.
“Whether it’s the plight of the Nepalese, the orangutan’s loss of natural habit or global warming, they’re not afraid to express their shock and anger that practice x is still taking place in a supposedly civilised world. We tolerate this vanity because we love our stars, despite the obvious positions of privilege they harbour them in. We know that their outrage is not ours, but we forgive them.”
“Fiona Apple, however, represents something profoundly different: the daughter of a former Broadway actress, she grew up in Manhattan, later moving to California before she was discovered miraculously after throwing a few songs together on a first demo tape. Released in 1996, her debut album Tidal sold almost three million copies in the post Jagged Little Pill-era, and a seventeen year old Apple was thrust into a limelight in which her complicated and sometimes abrasive manner was cynically used as a marketing tool.”
